5th grade Full ELA Year Long Reading Curriculum Using Rap Songs

Use pop-culture and history rap songs as reading activities in this full ELA year long curriculum for 5th grade!

Based on history and reading rap songs, these language arts activities will keep your students engaged using song lyrics while they practice a variety of reading skills!

- easily incorporate them into independent activities

- complete them together as a class lesson

- plan out your entire year's reading curriculum (read below for a sample outline),

- and give your students an exciting break from traditional reading activities.

Students will listen to the songs then use the song lyrics as reading passages to complete the activities detailed below.

These activities are:

- no prep to save you time

- super simple and easy to use

- high-interest reading passages based on clean, school-appropriate rap songs!

*Listen to some of the songs using the video preview above!*

You have to teach it anyway, so make it fun!

With a diverse set of passages covering exciting topics with rap music such as:

- the history of Hip Hop and rap music

- comicbook hero, history and parody

- kids' movie history

- and influential historical figures like:

• Cesar Chavez
• Harriet Tubman
• Helen Keller
• and Sacagawea.

This bundle covers all of the skills listed below and includes multiple-choice questions for easy grading and graphic organizers. Click the product links above for more details.

- answering comprehension questions

- cause and effect

- character traits

- compare and contrast

- context clues

- decoding multisyllabic words

- fiction vs. nonfiction

- figurative language

- main idea and supporting details

- making inferences

- personification

- root words and affixes

- sequencing events and timelines

- story elements skills.

- and synonyms and antonyms skills.

Plan Your Year with these Activities!

We recommend looking at your syllabus or grade's pacing guide and then selecting the activities from each bundle that match the skills that you need to teach each week. *Note: The following outline is intended to be used after the first two weeks of teaching classroom expectations and procedures and allows room for standardized testing and school events. Sample outline:

• Weeks 1 and 2 - teaching classroom expectations and procedures
• Weeks 3 and 4 - synonyms and antonyms: Hip Hop History 1 and 2, and parody activities
• Week 5 and 6 - compare and contrast: Black Heroes of the Revolution and movie parody activities
• Week 7 and 8 - main idea and details: Hip Hop History 1, Sacagawea, and movie parody activity activities
• Week 9 and 10 - root words: movie parody, Phillis Wheatley, and Sojourner Truth activities
• Week 11 - prefixes: movie parody and Sojourner Truth activities
• Week 12 - suffixes: movie parody and Sojourner Truth activities
• Week 13 and 14 - decoding multisyllabic words: Cesar Chavez, Hip Hop History 1 and 2, Frederick Douglass, and movie parody activities
• Week 15 - review: holiday-themed activities or use remaining activities for various skills (Women in Comics vs. Warrior Women in History, Spiderdude, or Thor activities)
• Weeks 16 and 17 - context clues: Hip Hop History 1 and 2 and movie parody activities
• Week 18 and 19 - sequence of events: Cesar Chavez, Frida Kahlo, Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, and Sojourner Truth activities
• Week 20 and 21 - figurative language: Jazz Age History, Hip Hop History 2, and Helen Keller activities
• Week 22 and 23 - editing and proofreading: a variety of topics and themes

Hasn't this already been done? There are TONS of educational songs out there, but none of them are fully integrated into reading activities based on the song lyrics. With Rap Opera for Kids, when the music stops, the learning doesn't.

This bundle includes bonus, editing and proofreading with rap songs activities!

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